Producing management knowledge : research as practice / edited by Jan Lowstedt and Torbjorn Stjernberg. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2006. - xix, 281 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Knowledge production in management : a messy practice / Jan Löwstedt and Torbjörn Stjernberg -- Issue-driven research / Michael Earl -- Writing as reflexive knowledge production and as self production / David Sims -- Making sense of stockbrokers' performance : reflections about phenomenographic approach / Jesper Blomberg -- Studying every day life : an ethnomethodological and discourse analytic approach / Pernilla Bolander -- Inside the school : an ethographic approach to school management / Ulrika Tillberg -- Tracing consultants' problems solving processes : a simulation approach / Andreas Werr -- Interviews as a source of knowledge / Torbjörn Sternberg -- Listening to executives : content analysis of life stories / Barbro Anell -- Building theory about small firms : a grounded theory approach / Tomas Brytting -- The making of a methaphor : developing a theoretical framework / Thomas Durand -- Researching organization design : comparative vs collaborative approaches / Harvey Kolodny and B. (Rami) Shani -- The changing practice of action research / Peter Docherty, Anders Ljung and Torbjörn Stjernberg -- The power of contrasts. Comparative research for overcoming ethnocentric myopia / Bengt Stymne and Jan Löwstedt -- The innovative research enterprise / Bengt Stymne.

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